Frederick Douglass: “Everywhere in this country, it is safe to speak of this foreign slave…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1855

Everywhere in this country, it is safe to speak of this foreign slave trade as a most inhuman traffic, opposed alike to the laws of God and of man.

Said by

Frederick Douglass

Source

From his autobiography, Douglass observes the universal condemnation of the foreign slave trade in America.

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Frederick Douglass: “Everywhere in this country, it is safe to speak of this foreign slave trade as a most inhuman traffic, opposed alike to…”